Many congratulations to Natalia Abraham for successfully defending her MSc thesis entitled “Childhood adversity, deployment-related stress, and mental health in the Canadian Armed Forces”. Natalia completed her MSc as part of the Public Health and…

Hearty congratulations go out to Michael Martin, who successfully defended his PhD thesis on July 10, 2017. Micheal’s thesis was entitled “Detection and Treatment of Mental Illness among Prison Inmates: A Validation of Mental Health…

Congratulations to APEAL student Dylan Johnson, whose first-author paper “The association between multiple chemical sensitivity and mental illness: Evidence from a nationally representative sample of Canadians” was recently published in the Journal of Psychosomatic Research. The…

Many congratulations to APEAL Lab alumnus Yasmin Garad on the publication of her paper entitled “Sex-specific differences in the association between childhood adversity and cardiovascular disease in adulthood: evidence from a national cohort study” in the Canadian Journal…

Dr. Colman was delighted to recently support the launch of the Have That Talk campaign. Have That Talk is a program from Ottawa Public Health, in partnership with Bell Let’s Talk, to encourage people to…

  Congratulations to Ian Colman,  principal investigator on a successful grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). The one-year grant will fund an investigation into the effect of parenting practices during childhood on…

Congratulations to APEAL PhD candidate François Thériault, who has recently published a paper in Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.  The paper, co-authored by Dr. Ian Colman, is based on a project François completed for a graduate…

Congratulations to APEAL PhD Student Kiyuri Naicker, who has published a new paper in Diabetes Care based on her dissertation research. The paper, written in collaboration with experts at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, the…

At the 2016 European Psychiatric Association Epidemiology Section meeting in Goteborg, Sweden, at the end of November, several  Lab members were on stage. PhD student Kiyuri Naicker was invited to present during a symposium on…

In their recent paper “Predictors of Suicidal Behaviors in Canadian Adolescents with No Recent History of Depression“, Murray Weeks and Ian Colman examine factors associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempt in the absence of…